CVE-2015-4652 - Cankerous Fatass

Description

epan/dissectors/packet-gsm_a_dtap.c in the GSM DTAP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.6 does not properly validate digit characters which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet related to the de_emerg_num_list and de_bcd_num functions.

Reference

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11201 http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2015-20.html https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=commit;h=d93be95fc0e7011e8b4ade9171e7e66146063296 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3294 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75316 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032662 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00020.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-03